Editing Information cascade (section)

==Legal aspects==
The negative effects of informational cascades sometimes become a legal concern and laws have been enacted to neutralize them. [[Ward Farnsworth]], a law professor, analyzed the legal aspects of informational cascades and gave several examples in his book ''The Legal Analyst'': in many [[military court]]s, the officers voting to decide a case vote in reverse rank order (the officer of the lowest rank votes first), and he suggested it may be done so the lower-ranked officers would not be tempted by the cascade to vote with the more senior officers, who are believed to have more accurate judgement; another example is that countries such as [[Israel]] and [[France]] have laws that prohibit polling days or weeks before [[election]]s to prevent the effect of informational cascade that may influence the election results.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Farnsworth |first1=Ward |title=The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law |date=2007 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-23835-7 |oclc=76828864 }}{{pn|date=March 2023}}</ref>